Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team

The Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team (MET) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is conducting multidisciplinary research on the role of the public and private health sectors in delivering maternal healthcare.

MET is currently working on evaluation of MSD for Mothers – a 10-year, $500 million initiative focused on improving the quality of maternal healthcare women receive at a health facility during childbirth, and on increasing access to family planning.

MET LSHTM has been contracted as an independent external evaluator for several MSD for Mothers programmes, including social franchises for maternal healthcare in India and Uganda and an innovative supply chain intervention for family planning in Senegal.

In a world where those already living below the poverty line are pushed further into poverty as a result of health payments, efforts to achieve universal health coverage demand a focus on equity in both public and private sectors.

“17 million people die because of socioeconomic injustice per year. 10 million of them are women.” These were the words of Dr David Chiriboga (former Minister of Public Health of Ecuador) as he opened the panel discussion at MET’s series launch ‘Who cares for women?’, which was held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Wednesday 13 January 2016 (and available to view/listen online).

The Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team (MET) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is publishing the most comprehensive analysis to date of where women in low- and middle-income countries seek reproductive and maternal healthcare, and the quality of care they receive, drawing on data from Demographic and Health Surveys in 57 countries.